1922
TRANSLATION

Dear Comrade Varga!

I am ill. Completely incapable of undertaking any work whatsoever.

If you compile a collection (of quotations from my works or from portions of them), I naturally have nothing against this, but you must name yourself as responsible for the selection.

My requests:
1) cite my works from spring 1918 more fully—those against the "Left," on "state capitalism" and on the difficulties of m a n a g e m e n t as a s p e c i f i c t a s k;
2) the pamphlet against the "Infantile Disorder" (general rules of tactics and strategy) (cite more fully);
N B 3) never cite my speeches (their texts are always poorly, always inaccurately rendered); only my published works.

With warmest greetings,
Your Lenin

P. S. I also cannot promise an afterword. You will name yourself as responsible for the selection of quotations.

April 10, 1922

Lieber Genosse Varga!

Leider bin ich noch immer krank und arbeitsunfähig. Bitte nur meine Artikel (ältere) wieder zu drucken; wichtig wären Auszüge aus dem Frühlingsartikel 1918 (schon abgedruckt in der Broschüre über Naturalsteuer). Vielleicht dazu (ausnahmsweise) einige Stellen aus der Rede auf dem Parteitag 1922: aber ich selbst habe d i e s e R e d e im Druck n i c h t lesen können: höchstwahrscheinlich ist im Druck alles furchtbar entstellt. Bitte nur früher zu zeigen welche Stellen (und gut redigiert von einem kompetenten Genossen!) Sie wiederdrucken wollen.

Mit besten Grüssen
Ihr Lenin

TRANSLATION

Dear Comrade Varga!

Unfortunately, I am still ill and unable to work. I request only my earlier articles be reprinted; important would be excerpts from my spring 1918 article (already published in the pamphlet on the grain tax). Perhaps also (as an exception) some passages from my speech at the Party Congress of 1922: but I myself h a v e n o t b e e n a b l e t o r e a d t h i s s p e e c h in print: it is quite probable that in print everything is terribly distorted. I request only that you first show me which passages (well edited by some competent comrade!) you wish to reprint.

With warmest greetings,
Your Lenin

FROM A NOTE TO SECRETARIES

March 16, 1922

To Fotieva or Lepeshinskaya

I request that you more carefully enter into the second copy (No. 2) the changes and additions made by me in copy No. 1, and send copy No. 1 under receipt to the journal "Under the Banner of Marxism"*.

Lenin

TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE MANAGER OF AFFAIRS OF THE SNK**

March 21, 1922

Verify whether visas permitting entry into Russia were sent to those representatives of American capitalists who have begun negotiations concerning the provision to Russia of 40 million dollars' worth of agricultural machinery. If permission for entry has not yet been granted, achieve the establishment of the names of those responsible for the delay, so that I may subject them to severe punishment.

Lenin

* The reference is to V. I. Lenin's article "On the Significance of Militant Materialism" (Collected Works, Vol. XXVII, pp. 180–190).
** The document was dictated by V. I. Lenin by telephone. Printed from a typescript copy.